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Friday, March 6, 1981 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Whalers 5 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 95OVR Danny Gare Sabres First Star 2G · 1A · 7 SOG L 94OVR Blaine Stoughton Whalers Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 85OVR Rick Meagher Whalers Third Star 2G · 5 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:45 Danny Gare (32) Derek Smith (38) HFD 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 8:48 Tony McKegney (30) Danny Gare (30), Richie Dunn (36) HFD 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 14:36 Rick Meagher (3) Mark Howe (38), Blaine Stoughton (27) HFD 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 15:58 Blaine Stoughton (33) Dave Keon (26), Gilles Lupien (2) HFD 2 – 2 BUF
  3. 18:44 Danny Gare (33) Tony McKegney (26) HFD 2 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 2:34 Rick Meagher (4) Blaine Stoughton (28), Mike Fidler (19) HFD 3 – 3 BUF
  2. 3:30 Don Nachbaur (10) Tom Rowe (21), Jeff Brubaker (2) HFD 4 – 3 BUF
  3. 19:10 Pat Boutette (25) Mike Rogers (57), Stuart Smith (6) HFD 5 – 3 BUF

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Blaine Stoughton L 1 2 3 +2 2.53
Rick Meagher C 2 0 5 +1 2.03
Mark Howe D 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Jeff Brubaker L 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Mike Rogers C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Mike Fidler L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Stuart Smith D 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Don Nachbaur C 1 0 2 +1 0.68
Gilles Lupien D 0 1 0 0 0.63
Tom Rowe R 0 1 3 +1 0.48
Dave Keon C 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Pat Boutette L 1 0 4 -1 0.30
Jack McIlhargey D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Warren Miller R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dave Debol C 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Al Sims D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Norm Barnes D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Veisor — 21 19 2 .905 26:43 0.40
John Garrett W 26 25 1 .962 33:17 1.75

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Danny Gare R 2 1 7 +1 2.80
Tony McKegney L 1 1 4 0 1.68
Derek Smith C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Richie Dunn D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 6 0 0.45
Alan Haworth C 0 0 4 0 0.30
Bill Hajt D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Andre Savard C 0 0 5 0 0.08
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
John Van Boxmeer D 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Rob McClanahan C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Don Luce C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jean-Francois Sauve C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Gilles Hamel L 0 0 0 -1 -0.68
Ric Seiling R 0 0 3 -3 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve L 24 20 4 .833 59:12 -1.00